Considering that most users run multi-core systems these days this might seem unacceptable. Considering that efficient multi-core programming is a major pain and the beneficial returns are not so major in most cases it is actually very acceptable.

Aside from this: The developers are quite active (apart from 4th July holidays right now) and so is the community.

So feel welcome and have fun. 

You can easily select all fighters and / or bombers by alt-clicking one. shift clicking will add the clicked unit to your current selection.

So if you alt-click a bomber, you'll select all bombers in the grav well. Then if you shift-alt click a fighter, you'll also select all fighters in the grav well.

Oh this annoys me SO much

Sins came out in February, 2008...the engine was designed by Ironclad (a very small company) and they probably started working on the engine at least a year in advance of the Sins release date...so, you are looking at an engine that only made it to the drawing board in 2006-2007, and at that time there was no reason to make it multicore or 64 bit...the original game didn't have nearly as many assets and was designed to run on low-end systems...it was a different time then than it is now, and you can't use todays standards to judge an engine that probably entered the design stage 5-6 years ago....

Stardock has a strong track record of supporting their games for long periods of time...for example, Diplomacy v1.34 was released over 2 years after the initial release of Diplomacy...you can look at that in one of two ways:

1. Stardock is really dedicated and supports their games for long periods of time
2. Stardock is really slow and takes for ever to get their games to a well-balanced state

The truth probably lies somewhere in the middle...I'd also point out that much larger franchises with far more resources take just as long updating their game to a "good" state of balance/stability...